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They're at it again. After their success with the amorous adventures of David Blunkett and Kimberley Quinn, the Spectator's job-sharing theatre critics
Toby Young and
Lloyd Evans are writing another sex farce, this time with starring roles for
Camilla, the
Duke of EdinburghWills and
Harry. They hope to finish it in time for a spring premiere at the King's Head in Islington, London, where Who's the Daddy? hit the stage and did very nicely. But the first night could be livened up by Beefeaters arresting the pair at halberd-point for treason and carting them off to the Tower. Young gave the Stage an outline of his less than respectful plot: "It's set in the near future, in the moment after the Queen's death, before Charles's coronation. Harry, far from being a half-witted Sloane ranger, turns out to be a Richard III-type plotter and schemer, who manipulates everyone around him to become king. Needless to say, not everything goes to plan."

The West Brom fullback Paul Robinson is popular with Baggies fans, not least for the way he fires up the crowd at the Brummy Road end at the end of even the most frustrating of games. And the Baggies, for whom the description heroic failures might have been invented, have seen a few of them. Fans abandoned their traditional depression-defying boing-boinging at Old Trafford on Boxing Day when Robinson was laid out cold with concussion for six minutes after bashing his head against one of his own men while doggedly marking Wayne Rooney. The West Brom manager Bryan Robson said yesterday he was waiting for a medical update before deciding whether to play Robinson in tonight's home game against Spurs.

Next year (it's only three days away) is going to be a big Shostakovich year - it is the centenary of the enigmatic composer's birth. Manchester will hear all 15 symphonies within a month in a series of concerts beginning in mid-January. But the great man has not been forgotten in more distant parts of the musical empire. Rumon Gamba, British-born chief conductor and music director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, has spread his complete Shostakovich cycle over an entire season but will soon be taking on the mighty eighth, the equivocal ninth and searing 10th in Reykjavik. With regular concerts around the world, Gamba is proving much more than a dogged recorder of film scores by British composers.